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CAROLUA PEBSPICILLATA PERSPICILLATA Linnaeus 



Vespertilio perspicillatus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 31, 1758. 

 Hemiderma brevicauda, Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 1, p. 101, 



1900 (Santa Marta; Pueblo Viejo; Palomino). — Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., vol. 13, p. 90, 1900 (Bonda); vol. 20, p. 457, 1904 (Cacagualito). 

 Hemiderma perspicillatum, Hahx, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 108, 1907 



(Santa Marta; revision). 

 CaroUia perspicillata perspicillata, Sanborn, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 21, p. 176, 



1932 (Sautatii, Pao Atrato; Mamatoeo; Bonda). 



Type locality. — Surinam (fixed by Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1911, p. 130). 



Specimens collected. — Seventy-nine. Pueblo Bello, Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta, 6 males (1 in alcohol), 21 females (6 in alcohol); El 

 Salado, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 4 males, 2 females; Rio 

 Guaimaral, 1 male, 3 females (in alcohol); El Orinoco, 1 male; 

 Villanueva, 8 males, 5 females (1 in alcohol); Sierra Negra, 17 males, 

 5 females; Rio Taira, 2 males, 1 female; Norosi, 1 male, 1 female; 

 Guamalito, 1 female (in alcohol). 



Remarks. — The collection includes two erythristic individuals, both 

 males and both from Villanueva. The forearm varies in length from 

 38.2 to 44.2 millimeters, the greatest length of the skull averages 22.6. 



CAROLUA CASTANEA H. Allen 



Carollia castanea H. Allen, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 28, p. 19, 1890. 

 Hemiderma castaneum, Hahn, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 116, 1907 (revi- 

 sion; description and measurements). 



Type locality. — Costa Rica. 



Specimens collected. — Two. Rio Tarra, upper Rio Catatumbo, 

 Norte de Santander, m.ale and female (in alcohol). 



Measurements. — Head and body, 48 (of male); tail, 7, 8; hind foot, 

 12, 10; ear, 17, 17; tibia, 14, 15; calcar, 6, 7; forearm, 34.3, 36.0; third 

 metacarpal, 32.3, 34.4; first phalanx of third finger, 14.6, 14.2; 

 second phalanx of third finger, 19.9, 20.0; third phalanx of third 

 finger, 12.6, 13.3; fourth metacarpal, 31.4, 33.5; fi^rst phalanx of fourth 

 finger, 12.5, 12.5; second phalanx of fourth finger, 13.5, 13.4; fifth 

 metacarpal, 34.8, 35.6; thumb, 14, 12; nose leaf, 8.3, 8.4; distance 

 across base of upper canines, 4.3 (female); maxillary tooth row, 6.1; 

 length of mandible, 12.3; lower tooth row (C-Mo), 6.9. 



Remarks. — Carollia castanea is distinguished from C. perspicillata by 

 smaller size throughout, nose leaf shorter and less lanceolate in outline, 

 outer side of tragus without the conspicuous concave subterminal 

 emargination characteristic of perspicillata; shape of skull of castanea 

 essentially as in perspicillata but markedly smaller (less than 21 mm. 

 in greatest length); inner upper incisors about a third smaller, their 

 outline on outer surface more nearly rectangular, the lower edges 

 chisel-shaped (subtriangular and tapering to a blunt point in per- 



